Terms & Conditions for United Kingdom Roller Derby Association Logo Competition.
You are submitting to the United Kingdom Roller Derby Association (“UKRDA”), via info@ukrda.org.uk the
logo attached to your email (hereinafter referred to as the “Logo”) on the terms and conditions stated herein.
UKRDA has set up this competition to find a design for use as its company logo worldwide. This form sets out
the terms of your participation in the competition and the terms set out herein shall be deemed accepted by you
upon submission of your Logo to UKRDA.
To enter the logo competition you must submit your Logo to UKRDA via email no later than midnight on 5
November 2010. No entries will be accepted after the closing date. You hereby represent that you are over 18
and are a resident in the United Kingdom. Current rollerderby skaters, their family members and employees of
roller derby leagues are eligible to enter this competition.
UKRDA takes no responsibility for entries that are lost, delayed, misdirected or incomplete or cannot be
delivered or entered for any technical or other reason. Submitted logos will be retained by UKRDA and
participants will not have any right of return or any other feedback.
Upon submission of your Logo via email, you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally with full title guarantee
assign by way of an assignment of present and future copyright, the entire copyright and all other rights, title
and interest of whatsoever nature, whether vested or contingent including, without limitation, all exploitation
rights in all media and by all means now known or hereafter invented in and to the Logo, to hold the same
unto UKRDA absolutely, throughout the universe in all formats for the full period of copyright and all renewals,
revivals, reversions or extensions now existing or hereafter created by the laws in force in any part of the world.
This assignment shall be without reservation or condition so that no right of any kind, nature or description is
reserved by you. You irrevocably and unconditionally waive in perpetuity all moral rights you may have in and
to the Logo. For clarification, this means that UKRDA will be the sole legal owner of the Logo and will have the
right to publish, reproduce, alter, amend, copy the Logo and use the Logo in any way it wishes whatsoever.
However, UKRDA agrees that it will not use the Logo as its company logo unless your Logo is chosen as the
winner of this competition.
By submitting your Logo to UKRDA, you grant all necessary consents in relation to your personal data (e.g. your
name, email address, contact phone number) in order for UKRDA to operate the competition. Any personal data
relating to entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and will not be
disclosed to a third party without your consent.
UKRDA reserves the right to provide the press and media with details of the competition and the results,
including the name of the winner, if any. The winner, if any, may be required to participate in publicity that may
result in photographs being taken and their names provided to the press and media.
UKRDA reserves the right to list the applicants and their designs online on the UKRDA website and to include
any and all entries in any publication.
You agree not to use the Logo for any purpose other than submitting it as an entry to this competition.
UKRDA reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or
permanently, this competition with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its control (including, without
limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud).
UKRDA reserves the right to reject any entry that does not comply with the requirements of the competition.
UKRDA reserves the right to make the final proposal of the winning logo taking into account the UKRDA member
vote.
In consideration of and as a material inducement for UKRDA considering your Logo in the competition, you
hereby represent and warrant that your Logo entry is the result of your own personal creativity, it is original, it
is solely your own work and the copyrights and any other rights of any third party have not been infringed. You
represent and warrant that you have not used the work or elements of any work of any third party in the Logo.
The winner, if any, will be notified no later than 30 November 2010. UKRDA’s decision is final and binding
on all matters, you waive the right to appeal such decision and no correspondence will be entered into.
In the event that UKRDA does not wish to use any of the entries, including your Logo, to the competition as its
company logo, it reserves the right not to choose a winner. In such circumstances, UKRDA shall not be entitled
to use any of the entries, including your Logo, as its company logo.
If your entry wins the competition, UKRDA will have the right to seek protection for the logo by filing a
trademark in the name of UKRDA or by registering the logo under any copyright law or other law in any
jurisdiction.
In the event that a winning logo is chosen by UKRDA, the winner will be notified in writing. Following (a) the
winner signing an assignment document in a form satisfactory to UKRDA; and (b) all copyright and other
checks having been made to the satisfaction of UKRDA in its sole discretion. You agree that you will enter into
a consultation process with UKRDA in relation to the Logo and that you will make up to seven sets of revisions
relating to the Logo (“Revisions”) as instructed by UKRDA.
You acknowledge and agree that if your Logo is the winning logo it may be used by UKRDA as the company
logo throughout the universe in perpetuity in any and all media now known or hereafter devised. UKRDA
shall have the right to use the logo as described before but there shall be no obligation to use the logo.
UKRDA shall have the right to modify and change the Logo, to undertake a professional redesign, to create
different versions of the Logo with regards to, without limitation, colour, size, format, dimensions, resolution,
motion and all other attributes without any further recourse to you. A moving version of the Logo may be
created.
You irrevocably and unconditionally agree that upon your Logo winning the competition all exclusive and
transferable rights to use, publish, advertise, copy, modify, alter, edit, develop and reproduce the Logo (in all
its forms and as submitted or modified) in any possible (commercial and non-commercial) way have vested
in UKRDA throughout the universe in any and all media in perpetuity (the exclusive right means that no other
person will be allowed to use the Logo, including you).
The assigned rights are not restricted by time, region or to a specific type of usage. It also includes the right
to transfer the rights to third parties and to grant sub-licences as well as the right to use the Logo in any
media, including TV, internet, mobile, radio, all printed advertising media, CD/DVD and all data-carriers, for
merchandising and to be printed on all kinds of objects, packages and documents. The entrant also hereby
assigns any undiscovered rights in the Logo to UKRDA.
UKRDA shall automatically upon submission become the owner of all legal rights related to the Logo.
You shall indemnify UKRDA against all costs, claims, damages, losses and expenses arising as a result of any
claim or action that the Logo infringes any intellectual property right of a third party or from any breach of any
of the representations, warranties, undertakings or agreements contained herein.
You acknowledge that due to the nature of the competition, UKRDA may receive entries that are similar or
identical to the Logo and you hereby waive and agree that you will not now or hereafter make any claim or
demand or bring any action against UKRDA in this regard or which may arise out of or in connection with the
Logo. You hereby irrevocably and absolutely release and forever discharge UKRDA of and from any and all
claims, damages, legal fees, costs, expenses, debts, actions and causes of action of every kind and nature
whatsoever, whether now known or unknown, which you now have or may have in the future, against UKRDA,
which in any way arise out of or in connection with the Logo.
UKRDA accepts no responsibility for any damages, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered
by an entrant as a result of entering the competition.
UKRDA further disclaims liability for any injury or damage to the entrant or any other person relating
to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials in connection with the competition.
On submission of the application form the rights assigned hereunder shall be irrevocable and shall not be
subject to reversion, rescission, termination or injunction or any other equitable relief. Your remedies will
be limited to your right to recover damages in an action at law. You shall not by reason of any breach or
repudiation be able to interfere, inhibit, enjoin or restrain the development, production or exploitation of the
Logo. UKRDA shall be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief to prevent a breach of these terms and
conditions by you.
No submission of the Logo will be accepted from you on the basis of a confidential relationship nor shall any
such submission by me be deemed a confidential communication.
This form constitutes your entire understanding and agreement and supersedes all prior understandings,
whether oral or written between you and UKRDA.
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and the English courts shall have exclusive
jurisdiction.
Filling in your details on the application form and agreeing to these terms and conditions shall be treated as if
you have signed an original, fully binding agreement with full legal force and effect and you waive any rights
you may have to object to such treatment.